Manager - SAP Systems required for a reputed organization in Hospitality / FMCG industry

To help manage the current SAP environment including understanding of business requirements from finance, supply chain, operations, HR and others, and coordinate with development vendors to design, test and implement these requirements.

This role will not only ensure smooth and timely implementation but will also bring thought leadership and experience in building and documenting a strong understanding of current state, optimizing the various processes within SAP, and preparing the organization for HANA upgrade in near future.

This role will also help optimize the existing third-party integrations via SAP. Additionally, it will ensure the concurrency and compliance of licensing and associated infrastructure

Key Responsibilities :

Stakeholder Management and SAP Project Management :

- Business requirement gathering for SAP ECC, SAP Successfactor, third party integrations via SAP PI and other applications.

- Feasibility analysis, effort, and timeliness assessment of various requirements in discussions with vendors

- Design, testing and implementation of the major and minor enhancements in a timely manner

- Liaise with all relevant internal teams, structures, and departments as appropriate to deliver the projects

- Conduct weekly, monthly governance meetings with business stakeholders to provide status updates, proactively understand business requirements and propose process improvements

- Proactively take initiative to understand various aspects of business and identify optimization opportunities

- Document current state in detail and initiate org preparation for HANA upgrade in near future

SAP Support :

- Coordinate with vendors to ensure all SAP issues related issues are resolved in a timely manner

- Conduct weekly, monthly meetings with vendors to ensure right SLAs are in place and tracked appropriately

- Coordinate with vendors to ensure strong processes are in place for day-to-day activities such as store rollout, master data maintenance and others.

- Ensure right checks are in place for 100% delivery of these activities on time

- Ensure the organization is in full licensing compliance for software and underlying hardware

- Coordinate with vendors for periodic capacity management and maintenance activities

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities :

- Experience in ECC and HANA ADM projects

- Hands on experience of at least 2-3 modules preferably FICO, SCM and WMS with exposure of other modules

- Hands on experience in project delivery and stakeholder management

- Experience in 3rd party vendor management

- Familiar with tools and technology necessary to manage SAP ADM projects (Ticketing tool, monitoring tools, Demand/Capacity management tools, Monitoring tools and automation, SAP OSS, Project tracking etc.)

- Possesses good communication skills

- SAP or S4 HANA Certifications will add more weightage.

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